School enrollment in
Okaloosa County is
down again, said
school district officials.
See page 2.
Get back
Following the difficul-
Sties many
people
had in
getting
back to
their
homes for even a short
time after Hurricane
Ivan, the county has
taken steps to make it
easier. See page 3.
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Hurlburt cross country
run-
ners i K
beat
their
Eglin
coun-
terparts in the first dual
meet. See story on
page 5.
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season.

I

RecallingWWi l's

bloodiest battle

Fight vet was felled by frostbite

American soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge, which lasted from
Dec. 16, 1944, to Jan. 25, 1945. Before it was turned back, the
German attack cost 81,000 U.S. casualties, among them Cpl.
Charles Geiger, disabled by frostbite.

By Mike Griffith
Correspondent
Charlie Geiger doesn't like to
talk much about his experiences
in World War II, although he
fought in one of its
most historic strug-
gles-the Battle of the
Bulge, Germany's last
big offensive before .
being defeated by
Allied forces in
Western Europe.
When asked before
the battle's 64th
anniversary, Geiger, 83,
reluctantly shared some Charles
of his memories.
Echoing sentiments expressed
almost invariably by other mem-
bers of "the greatest generation,"
the Bluewater Bay retiree said: "It

wasn't much, really, and there
were so many others who did
much more than I did."
"The foot soldier's war is pret-
ty much limited to no more than
what he can see, hear,
or feel at any given
S time," Geiger said. "His
adversary, in the
European theater of
operations at least, may
well have been some-
one like himself, there
because his country
called, trying to sur-
vive, but who would
s Geiger kill you if he could.
Conversely, one you would kill if
you could."
Geiger, originally from
Please seeWWII, page 4

EOD student, family, suffer with economy

Church helped strapped pair

make it through Christmas
By Stacie Morgan
Staff Writer
Rachel Jackson, of Valparaiso wasn't able to muster a lot of excite-
ment about the holidays this recession year. According to the 27-year-
old wife and mother, the financial outlook is downright discouraging.
"This year I've been feeling really hopeless," said Rachel. "We've
had car issues, loans and consolidated payments. It seems like we've
always struggled financially, but this year seems extra tough."
The year has been so difficult for the Jackson family that they had
to accept financial help from another couple through their church.
Rachel's family is just one of many feeling the pinch of the strug-
gling U.S. economy this season.
According to Capt. John Edmonds, commanding officer of the
Salvation Army branch serving Okaloosa and Walton counties, there
has been an increase of 20 percent in the number of families serviced
by the charity.
"We helped 360 families this year, and barely over 300 last year,"
Edmonds said. "We've handed out food boxes, and coats donated by
the United Way. We had a company give us MREs, and we handed
Please see ECONOMY, page 4

Photo by Stacie Morgan
The Jackson family-Cameron, 24, Rachel, 27, Faith, 6, and Hailee,
6 months-has suffered financial reverses this year. Faith has
offered the contents of her piggy bank to help pay the bills.

ATM card skimmer targets area residents

Device records card number; camera shoots PIN

Photo by Del Lessard
Bluewater Bay resident Shuey Wolfe points to an area
where he noticed something had been added when he
used this Bank of America ATM Dec. 6. He learned last
week that thieves had stolen his card information to
drain $1,800 from of his account.

By Del Lessard
Staff Writer
When Beverly Flynt tried to use
her ATM card Dec. 18 at Bank of
America in Bluewater Bay, the
machine's screen told her she had
exceeded her daily withdrawal limit.
Problem was, she hadn't used the
card since Dec. 7.
After Flynt, of Lake Pippin,
reported the problem to the bank, she
was told thieves had drained $1,800
from her account by two $900 ATM
withdrawals in Jacksonville Dec. 18.
Another customer of the branch
also lost $1,800.
The Bluewater branch is one of
three Bank of America offices in
Okaloosa County reporting thefts
from customer accounts by thieves
using automated teller machine "card
skimmers," illegal high-tech devices

mounted on ATMs to steal card
information and PINs.
Also reporting card skimming
thefts were Bank of America branch-

es in Fort
Walton Beach
and Shalimar.
Another
bank, Peoples
National Bank,
headquartered in
Niceville, also
reported thefts,
although bank
officials would
not confirm

Beverly Flynt

whether it was a skimming crime.
People's National detected the
fraud within a day or two and quick-
ly decided to cancel all customers'
ATM cards and give them new ones,
said Debbie Dye, chairman of the

bank. She said about 2,000 cus-
tomers were affected.
Dye said the bank was able to
limit its losses to about $2,000.
The bank replaced any money
fraudulently taken from customers'
accounts, Dye said.
Michele Nicholson, sheriff's
spokeswoman, said at least three
dozen citizens have had money
stolen out of their bank accounts as a
result of the Fort Walton Beach scam
alone. That number is expected to
grow. She said losses at the three
Bank of America branches were in
the tens of thousands of dollars.
Lt. Randy Sallee said Niceville
police received about half a dozen
complaints from Bank of America
customers who lost money due to
Please see ATM, page 3

By Stacie Morgan
Staff Writer
School enrollment in
Okaloosa County has declined
steadily in the last four years-
from a high of 31,059 in 2005
down to this year's number of
29,123, a difference of 1,860 stu-
dents.
Alexis Tibbetts, superintend-
ent of schools, said the decline
cannot be blamed on one cause.
"There's no one pat definition
for it," she said. "And it's not just
our county; the entire state of
Florida's enrollment numbers are
declining."
Tibbetts said the downturn
could be attributed to a combina-
tion of "hurricanes, housing and
insurance rates and an aging pop-
ulation'" She explained that
though school enrollment num-
bers may be down that's not nec-
essarily the case for county popu-
lation.
"People continue to move
here," she said, "but statistics are
showing our area is increasingly
becoming a retirement location."
Melissa Neal, associate direc-
tor of the Haas Center for
Business Research, attested to

Tibbetts' words. The decline,
Neal said, is "just based on the
demographics of the region since
the 1970s. We're seeing a
decrease in the area of people 19
and younger and they're being
replaced by those 50 and older,
those who don't have school-age
children."
Added Rick Harper, the cen-
ter's director: "There's a changing
composition of inward migration
into the state of Florida. We're
getting more people coming in
who are older, have a higher
income level and have no chil-

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Okaloose County School District
dren. We're getting less working-
class families with children."
The population of Okaloosa
County seems to be shifting to
the north, said Tibbetts, where
home and property prices are
more affordable and plentiful.
This is evidenced by the school
district's figures showing declin-
ing enrollment in the Niceville
and Fort Walton Beach areas, and
an increase for Crestview
schools.
Enrollments in Crestview have
been increasing since 2002-
from 6,203 to this year's 7,136.
But Niceville's numbers declined,
from 6,809 to 6,560, as did Fort
Walton Beach numbers, from
11,971 to this year's 10,304.
Enrollment numbers in
Okaloosa County are also directly
affected by military personnel
coming and going from Hurlburt
Field and Eglin Air Force Base.
According to information
from the Haas Center an estimat-
ed 401 school-age children with
military parents will leave
Okaloosa County by the end of
next year, mostly due to the 33rd
Fighter Wing drawdown. More
children will begin coming into
the area in 2010 but not in larger
numbers until 2011, due to the
beddown of the F-35 Joint Strike
Fighters as well as the Army's
7th Special Forces.
An Eglin Air Force base
spokesperson said they do not
track dependent numbers but said
approximately 1,280 military per-
sonnel will be filtering out of the
area, through next summer, due
to the drawdown.

Hiring deadline

for civilians

cut to 45 days
AF Personnel Center
To increase the efficiency in
filling civilian vacancies, effec-
tive New Year's Day, selecting
officials will have 45 days
instead of 90 to choose the
best-qualified candidate.
"We continue to refine the
civilian hiring process where
we can to speed up the hiring
action," said Maj. Gen. K.C.
McClain, Air Force Personnel
Center commander.
Under current policy, man-
agers have 90 days to make a
selection once they receive a
list of candidates. The 90-day
rule was put in place in June
2007 to ease the transition into
the National Security Personnel
System. A review of policy
showed managers were more
comfortable with the system
and could make the decision in
45 days or less.

Friday, January 2, 2009

County makes evacuation return easier

By Mike Griffith
Correspondent
Returning to the Twin Cities
area after a hurricane, flood, or
other disaster should not be as
difficult as it has in the past,
said
Okaloosa
Sheriff's
Office
spokesman
Mike Coup
during the
Dec. 18
meeting of
the
Okaloosa
County Mike Coup
County
Emergency Management
Committee.
Coup said the Sheriff's
Office has learned some impor-
tant lessons during previous
hurricanes such as Opal,
Dennis and Ivan, about how to
maintain public order and safe-

ty while still allowing evacuees
to return to their homes and
businesses as quickly as possi-
ble after a disaster.
In the past, Coup said, the
prevailing philosophy was to
restrict access to damaged
areas until initial recovery
actions such as search and res-
cue and restoration of
electric power and other
utilities was well under The
way or complete. resi
However, he said,
that proved impractical, wh(
and the current policy is
to allow residents and
business employees phy
who live and work in
damaged areas to return
as soon as it is physically safe
for them to do so, while still
maintaining order and control-
ling entry to some areas by
using entry checkpoints.
For public safety officials,

Coup said, the county is issu-
ing ID badges to such people
as public safety workers and
members of Community
Emergency Response Teams
(CERT), so they will not be
delayed at checkpoints as they
attempt to do their jobs.
Coup said the Sheriff's

e current policy is to allow
dents and business employ
o live and work in damage
as to return as soon as it is
sically safe for them to do

Office has also learned how to
better coordinate plans and
policies with the National
Guard. In the past, he said,
county officials have communi-
cated such things to command-

ing officers of guard units, but
the complete word has not
always filtered down to indi-
vidual guardsmen helping to
secure damaged areas.
Coup said another aid to
communication is the new
radio equipment recently issued
to county officials, which
allows them access to
more radio channels
than in the past.
"Now, all agencies
ees can talk to each other
d on the same radio," he
said, which speeds
messages and helps
SO. prevent misunderstand-
ings.
Restricting access
will be done only for those
areas most seriously damaged,
said Coup. For example, he
said, areas along the Gulf of
Mexico coastline, which are
subject to the most severe

storm surge, may be closed for
some time after a storm, but the
Niceville/Valparaiso area is less
likely to suffer such damage
and will probably be open
immediately after a storm.
Coup and Okaloosa County
Public Safety Director Dino
Villani said the best way to
determine when it is safe and
permissible to return will be by
checking the county Web sites,
okaloosafl.com, or
co.okaloosa.fl.us. The Web site
will contain maps and other
information showing which
neighborhoods are closed or
open, where utilities have been
restored, and where gasoline,
ice, food, and other supplies
are available, along with other
useful information. If people
cannot access the Internet
while evacuated, they can also
phone 651-7150 for informa-
tion.

ATM
From page I
fraudulent ATM withdrawals.
On Dec. 16, sheriff's deputies
went to the Bluewater Bay branch
of Bank of America after an ATM
repair technician reported signs of
tampering consistent with a card
skimmer having been attached to
machine. The skimmer was
gone, but marks remained.
According to documents cited
by the Sheriff's Office, here's
how ATM skimmers work:
"The equipment used to cap-
ture your ATM card number and
PIN is cleverly disguised to look
like normal ATM equipment. A
'skimmer' is mounted to the front
of the normal ATM card slot that
reads the ATM card number and
transmits it to the criminals sitting
in a nearby car."
"At the same time, a wireless
camera is disguised to look like a
leaflet holder and is mounted in a
position to view ATM PIN
entries'."
"The thieves copy the cards
and use the PIN numbers to with-
draw thousands from many
accounts in a very short time
directly from the bank ATM."
Such devices have also been
used on gasoline pumps.
In the Fort Walton Beach Bank
of America ATM incident, sher-
iff's investigators say the thieves
apparently put a card reader on
the teller machine overnight and
removed it before the bank
opened.
Another victim of the
Bluewater Bay bank scam, Shuey
Wolfe, gave an indication of the
sophistication and scope of the
skimming scheme. Wolfe, of
Bluewater Bay, said he last used
the Bluewater ATM machine Dec.
6. Investigators told him his bank
card information-his stolen PIN
number-was "tested" by thieves
in Texas Dec. 16, probably to
confirm that the stolen PIN num-
ber would work. The actual ATM
cash withdrawals were made a
short time later when thieves
made a total of six cash with-
drawals from three different
Jacksonville ATM machines Dec.
16-17.
The fraudulent withdrawals,
which ranged from $100 to $700,
totaled $1,800, Wolfe said. Bank
of America called Wolfe's home
as soon as it noticed the suspi-
cious activity, but he wasn't
home.
Nicholson said Bank of
America is replacing the stolen

money in the defrauded cus-
tomers' accounts.
Britney Sheehan, a spokesman
for Bank of America, said that
under bank policy, customers
stung by card-skimming thieves
are not responsible for any unau-
thorized activity in their
accounts-as long as they report
any suspicious or fraudulent
activity within a "reasonable"
time, usually within 30 to 60
days.

Sheehan said the best protec-
tion for bank customers is to dili-
gently monitor account activity
and notify the bank immediately
if they detect any fraudulent or
suspicious activity.
The bank declined to divulge
how many customers were vic-
timized, nor would it say how
much money was stolen.
Wolfe said he got his money
back Dec. 18 and was testing his
new ATM card the next day.

Chattanooga, was a high school
student at the McCallie Military
School when the war began, and
was drafted into the U.S. Army
shortly after graduation. He was
trained quickly, then sent to
Europe, where, as a corporal, he
was assigned as a replacement
infantryman in Company E, 141st
Regiment, 36th Division, 7th
Army.
He arrived after the Allied
invasion of Normandy in June
1944, and found himself near
where the French, Belgian,
Luxembourg, and German bor-
ders all come together, during the
late fall and early winter of that
year. With German forces appar-
ently in retreat, many Allied sol-
diers hoped that the worst of the
fighting was done.
Adolph Hitler had other ideas.
For months, the Nazi dictator had
been preparing a huge counter-
offensive, stockpiling troops and
weapons for one last blitzkrieg,
hoping to recapture the Belgian
port of Antwerp and create fear
and confusion among the Allies.
This, Hitler may have hoped,
would allow him to negotiate a
cease-fire that would leave him in
power in Germany.
On Dec. 16, 1944, when the
Germans launched their surprise
attack against American positions
during one of the bitterest
European winters on record,
Geiger was on "R&R" in France.
His unit was in the northeast cor-
ner of France, at the south end of
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lines that would give the battle its
name.
"I was rushed into a defensive
position near a French town
called Bitche," Geiger said. "It
turned out to be aptly named."
"I was a "BAR man," Geiger
said, meaning a soldier equipped
with a Browning Automatic Rifle.
"I was assigned this weapon
probably because I was pretty big,
the weapon is heavy, and you
have to carry an awful lot of
ammunition to feed it."
"The BAR is a hell of a
weapon," he said, "but since it is a
machine gun it attracts a lot of
attention from the other guy."
Upon reaching their defensive
positions, Geiger's unit took
cover in some abandoned German
foxholes. "The ground was frozen
so we couldn't dig any of our
own."
Before long, Geiger's unit was
attacked by a large German force.
"We got surrounded, and heard
some tanks just over a nearby hill.
We were told to expect to be cap-
tured, and we were ordered to
destroy all our letters and person-
al items" to keep them out of
enemy hands.
"We were in some big fire-
fights. We took out some of them,
and they took out some of us." He
wouldn't say how many
Germans, if any, he killed person-
ally. "I don't talk about that," he
said.
Geiger recounted some of the
memories that stayed with him
after the battle. "It was bitter cold,
and by the second day our can-
teens were frozen solid.
Unfortunately, about this time we
were completely surrounded by

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German troops and our food and
water supply was cut off. There
was an abundant amount of snow,
which we melted for water."
"I was squatting in the bottom
of our foxhole heating water over
some captured German stern
cans-much better than ours-for
the purpose of making my buddy
who was on watch some K-ration
coffee. About the time I finally
got it to the boiling point an
artillery shell landed just by our
foxhole and a piece of dirt landed
in my canteen cup. It was the last
of our coffee. I never knew if the
shell was theirs or ours. We got
shelled by both."
"I don't remember having
much to eat, but from time to
time we had to leave our foxhole
to 'do our thing.' I was out one
night when a German flare lit just
above me. I froze. The flare went
out. I moved. The flare re-lit. I
froze. It went out. I moved, it re-
lit, etc., etc."
Geiger said his unit must have
won its firefights, because the
expected big German attack never
came, and they were not overrun
or captured. "I'm not sure how
long we were there, but eventual-
ly another division got us out," he
said.
By that time, Geiger had been
wounded; not by German fire, but
by the weather, one of 81,000
American casualties in the bloodi-
est battle of the war. "I ended up
in the hospital with frostbite in
both feet. In due time I was in a
British hospital ship en route to
the UK from France. Six of us
Americans were in a hold full of
German POWs. Talk about a
bunch of happy men-them, not

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us."
The brief voyage led to other
memories. "For those of us who
couldn't walk, there were bars we
could use to swing our way to the
'head.' I was swinging my way
down one time when someone lit-
erally picked me up from behind
and carried me to my destination,
waited for me to finish, and car-
ried me back to my bunk. It was a
German POW who would soon
lose both feet due to frostbite. He
was beyond repair or pain."
"I was grateful to him at the
time, but after reading Stephen
Ambrose's 'The Citizen Soldier,' I
now don't know how to feel.
German soldiers captured wear-
ing GI boots were often forced to
go barefoot in the snow until their
feet were beyond repair. I wasn't
aware of this at the time."
Another memory concerned
his hospital stay in England.
"In those days, everything was
segregated, even the hospital. We
had one ward for white soldiers
and another ward for black sol-
diers. However, I remember one
black soldier, a patient, who used
to come and visit the white ward.
He had absolutely beautiful pen-
manship, and he used to go to the
soldiers who were too badly
injured to be able to write. They
would dictate letters home, and he
would write the letters for them. I
never found out his name, but I
still remember him."
After WWII, Geiger went to
college at Tennessee Tech, then
went on to a career that included
banking, finance, the auto indus-
try, and the oil business. He and
his wife, Alma Jean, or A.J.,
raised three children.

TWIN CITIES

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ECONOMY
From page I
those out. And then there were
the 800 children helped through
the Angel Tree program."
The Jackson family, consist-
ing of Cameron, 24, a petty offi-
cer second class studying at the
Navy Explosive Ordnance
Disposal school, Rachel, Faith, 6,
Hailee, 6 months, and their dog,
Snickers, spent last Christmas in
Texas with Rachel's parents, with
whom they were living.
"We've always had a financial
plan" said Rachel, who works
part-time at Wee School, a day
care associated with First Baptist
Church, Niceville. "But some-
thing big and unforeseen always
comes along'"
According to the financial
counseling office of Eglin Air
Force Base, 455 military mem-
bers came in for counseling in
2008. Some 721 clients received
assistance from the Air Force Aid
association, said Eglin public
affairs.
"It's really humbling to
receive money from your
church," Rachel said. "It's hard to
believe that people care that
much-that they can care enough
to give money to someone they
might not even know. We would-
n't have been able to get a
Christmas tree if we hadn't
received money from church."
Though Cameron is grateful
for the help from an anonymous
donor, arranged by First Baptist
Church, he said accepting money
was hard on his pride. "It makes
me feel really crappy," he said
with blunt honesty. "It makes me
feel like I'm not doing my job as
a provider," though he was quick
to say that no one has implied
any such a thing. "This is the first
time anyone has ever given us
money."
While Rachel and Cameron
have tried not to let their daughter
Faith know the extent of their
financial woes, the 6-year-old is
nonetheless aware that Mom and
Dad appear anxious.
"She knows we don't have the
money for a lot of things," said
Rachel. "I have to tell her all the
time that we can't get this or we
can't get that. She's heard
Cameron and I discussing things,
and there have been many times
she runs to her room and comes
back out with her bank. 'Here
Mommy. You can have the
money in my piggy bank,' she
says. So she knows things aren't
right."
"I knew things were getting
tough," said Cameron, "but until I
had to actually work with the
numbers I don't think I realized
how high the price of food had
gotten or how much we were
spending on gas, or repairs or
electricity. I used to get irritated
when Rachel would say we did-
n't have enough for something.'
Although there weren't many
presents under the Jackson family
Christmas tree this year, the cou-
ple has discovered the gift of
sharing the load.
"Sure, now I'm the one stress-
ing out about finances," Cameron
said, "but I've learned that you
have to be frugal when times are
tough. You can't be frivolous.
We're doing the best we can and
we're working on it together."
Said Rachel, "Sometimes I
feel like I can't take it anymore.
But when it gets like that, some-
thing comes along-like these
people who were looking specifi-
cally for a military family to
help-and you get blessed at a
moment when you least expect
it:'

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Friday, January 2, 2009

Hurfb urt Patriot

Hurlburt runners beat Eglin

By 2nd Lt. Mark Lazane
1st SOWPublic Affairs
Running enthusiasts from
Hurlburt Field and Eglin Air
Force Base took part in the first
Hurlburt/Eglin Cross Country
Challenge Dec. 19, at the
Timberlake Recreation area near
Eglin AFB.
The runners crossed the start-
ing line, ran roughly a quarter of a
mile, made a sharp left and
promptly disappeared into
the wilderness of Eglin Range.
They slowly began to emerge
about 30 minutes later, sandy and
tired, for a final dash to the finish
line.

Juan Moran, Air Force Special
Operations Command Special
Tactics Training Squadron, fin-
ished the five-mile course in
32:25 to lead the Hurlburt team to
victory.
This is the fifth season of cross
country intramurals at Hurlburt
Field. The successes of the
Hurlburt Field league led Eglin to
start a cross country season this
year. The Challenge is the culmi-
nation of both installations' sea-
sons and serves as an end of the
year battle of lungs and legs
between the two bases.
The first team to have five run-
ners complete the course was

declared the winner.
Team Hurlburt was presented
with a trophy that will be kept on
display until next year's race.
In addition to The Challenge
trophy, awards were presented to
the top three teams from Hurlburt
Field. The STTS took home the
first place trophy, with second and
third place going to the 6th
Special Operations Squadron and
the AFSOC headquarters team,
respectively.
"We need more runners," said
Mark Patterson, Chief of Combat
Development Activities and head
coach of the AFSOC HQ contin-
gent.

"People should run to stay fit,"
Patterson said. "They have to
exercise anyway with the fitness
program in the Air Force these
days. During one of our races, we
ran right by 400 people doing
physical fitness on their own. Our
goal is to get as many of those
individuals as possible to join a
team and compete."
Though only the top five run-

Juan Moran, Air Force Special
Operations Command Special
Tactics Training Squadron,
crosses the finish line in the
first Eglin/Hurlburt Cross
Country Challenge Dec. 19,
leading the Hurlburt Team to
victory.
Air Force photo
by 2nd Lt. Mark Lazane
ners count towards team points,
the only requirement to be a
member of the team is a desire to
run.
"It's not about your run time,"
Patterson said. "I love to see the
runner's faces as they get faster
from race to race, maybe even
beating a few people along the
way. It's all about constant
improvement."

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The Citizens Academy is a way
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Students will have an opportunity to
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